Brian Eno Quotes
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Quotes to Explore
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.
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When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.
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You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.
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If you really want something, you'll make it work.
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If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
